Albino Eureka Red
- Thread starter tdek
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Well also the blue more is from the scales/fins having semi-regular ridges which act like tiny prisms separating the light similar to a rainbow, but then depending on spacing of ridges certain colors will be reflected and others absorbed. (Not saying that good food and water doesn't emphasize colors)
Hence many times you will take flashes of fish and look nothing like what they do to the human eye. A great example is the empress fish. Take a picture with flash and without and you will be shocked that it is the same fish.
Personally I tend to always like the blue hues that pop in when taking photos of some of these fish, but it sort of stinks if you are trying to make it look just like it does in real life. Note it also can depend on the movement of the fish, how well your camera is synced with the flash, there are so many things that cause this affect. Just read up on refraction/reflection for fish.
There is an example of this type of thing happening here:
http://www.thekrib.com/Apisto/mayland-book.html
The best example I have just sitting on my computer is with an albino Twain Reef. With the eye I don't see blue, with flash you see blue (only posting links):
No flash:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ikevi/Fish/IMG_2436.jpg
Flash:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ikevi/Fish/IMG_2437.jpg
Note this doesn't mean a fish doesn't have blue I am just saying it is emphasized because of this phenomena.
Again a very nice guy I can only hope that mine grow up to look as good as yours.
Hence many times you will take flashes of fish and look nothing like what they do to the human eye. A great example is the empress fish. Take a picture with flash and without and you will be shocked that it is the same fish.
Personally I tend to always like the blue hues that pop in when taking photos of some of these fish, but it sort of stinks if you are trying to make it look just like it does in real life. Note it also can depend on the movement of the fish, how well your camera is synced with the flash, there are so many things that cause this affect. Just read up on refraction/reflection for fish.
There is an example of this type of thing happening here:
http://www.thekrib.com/Apisto/mayland-book.html
The best example I have just sitting on my computer is with an albino Twain Reef. With the eye I don't see blue, with flash you see blue (only posting links):
No flash:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ikevi/Fish/IMG_2436.jpg
Flash:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/ikevi/Fish/IMG_2437.jpg
Note this doesn't mean a fish doesn't have blue I am just saying it is emphasized because of this phenomena.
Again a very nice guy I can only hope that mine grow up to look as good as yours.
